William LORDEN

                   Special Collections 1661  Book A lvg.  page 47 gives original ordinance dates.   She was also baptized by proxy 11May 1965 by Kathleen Ashton and sealed 1 July 1977 to her parents in Ogden Temple.   Another case of repeat ordinances.    Also from her death certificate.  Special Collections 1239609 shows sealing to parents 22 Nov 1901.  #184067  8571 shows original endowment as 5 oct 1898 and 6 Oct 1898 as ???  H 00009 in Special Collections.

William Lorden was not amember of the church during his lifetime and Matilda was only endowed in 1894, long after his death.  I don't know if distance (they lived in Nephi while he was alive but in Salt Lake with her parents at least for a time after his death) or what was the cause of her not taking out her endowments earlier.   Matilda made sure hers and his work was all done later and was very active in temple work later in life.   About five years after Williams death, Matilda married John A.Compton and three children were born to them.  He had seven children from a previous marriage and she had four, making a total of 14.  Poverty and so many children living in poor circumstances caused friction which resulted in a divorce.  Matilda was granted the ciustody of their three children.  She also took the name of Lorden again.
Wilhelmine, the fourth daughter, married very young and her mother raised her baby boy William Wallace Carter.   When Wm. Wallace was about four years old the eldest daughter, Catherine E. (Kate) died leaving a son William Elmer three years and a baby 3 days old which the grandmother, Matilda raised.  She took care of them and devoted her life to her children and grandchildren.
Matilda was small in stature and frail, never weighing more than 111 lbs. and that only a short time.  She taught her children the gospel, attended chuirch when able to do so and was a life member of the Genealogical Society of Utah, doing some research and temple work.  Also a member of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.   She was very faithful in making monthly visits as a ward Relief Society teacher.
She was a great hand to keep in touch with her relatives through correspondance.  And alway encouraged them to visit in her home and made threm welcome.   She loved to have company and help and go to the temple with relatives and friends who came to Salt Lake to go through the temple.  She died of complications following an operation for appendicitis and gall stones in her 58th year.   ( Exerpts taken from a paperwritten by her daughter, Rebecca Gertrude Lorden Baker, my grandmother, in about 1950.)